DIPTERAL

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Archte, a temple which had a double range of columns on ■fits flanks. Dl'PTERANS, Diptera. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) An order of ■ i having for their main and most conspicuous character two wings only corresponding to the anterior pair, and two short clubbed appendages, called halteres or balancers,and which seem to be the rudiments of the posterior pair in four-winged insects. The Dipterans are also distinguished by having the mouth in the form of a sucker, composed of351from two to six lancet-shaped elongated scales, [s. 365]